Gebirgsjäger Chasseurs Alpins Allemands 1939–1945

Revue de Figurines d’Airfix au 1/76

Gebirgsjäger chasseurs alpins allemands de chez Airfix portant a mixture of field gray uniforms et Sumpfmuster tan aqueous camouflage smocks. Les figurines représentent un peloton d’infanterie based on 50 × 38 mm infantry stands compatible avec the Crossfire game system. The single figurine is le chef de peloton. Additional infantry stands may be added to account for the fact that elite infantry units typically showed greater initiative at the platoon et section level. This is particularly true of sections d’infanterie allemande which were trained to fight in two groups, a machine gun group de cinq hommes et a rifle group of seven to nine men. In game terms, these groups may be deployed on individual section-sized infantry stands.

Évaluation

Bon choix de sujet, the Airfix Gebirgsjäger offer many interesting poses for dioramas et small vignettes featuring mountain troops. Interestingly, the Airfix figurine set is unique in this scale, none of the other major manufacturers have released chasseurs alpins allemands.

Excellent poses suitable for dioramas. The figurines are anatomically correct et they are accurately posed pour représenter chasseurs alpins fighting et mountaineering. Joueurs de Guerre may have to convert some of the poses to draft them into wargame units.

The bicyclist is a nice figurine which may be used as a messenger ou recce trooper of Radfahr-Abteilung 54 ou Radfahr-Abteilung 95 reconnaissance bataillon. As the war progressed, bicycles increasingly replaced horses in cavalry regiments et infantry reconnaissance bataillons.

Several poses are only suitable for dioramas. Joueurs de guerre may want to convert them to gunners ou engineers. Using the new Pattex Blitz Plastik flüssig adhesive for Polyethylene figurines, it will be possible to place rifles into the hands of those figurines.

Possibilités de Conversions

La casquette de montagne Gebirgsmütze was not worn in combat, it should be replaced par le casque d’acier allemand

Les Gebirgsjäger chasseurs alpins allemands d’Airfix were released en 1977, et they are still among the most popular figurine sets of infanterie allemande. Joueurs de guerre need a box ou two of these troops to recruit Gebirgsjäger units which served on many fronts throughout the war. The figurines may be mixed avec Airfix Afrikakorps troops ou other late war infanterie allemande to increase the variety of poses in a platoon.